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Imagebearer

from Best Laid Plans by End of an Empire

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If I'm an imagebearer
Am I defined by how you see me?
The product of my insecurities?
The healed scar of my tragedies?
Expectations of my culture
Or rejection of the same?
If I'm an imagebearer
Am I ashamed of your name?

Culture-cringe in my heart
But your words flood my mind
Torn by my vision of you
And the framework they've entwined

Can I follow in spite of them?
Can I love you in spite of them?
Embodying what you said
Because of you, not them

If I'm an imagebearer
Why my dread for those who claim
To be your faithful followers
And distance myself from them?

Proud of their intolerance
Hypocrisy in their prayers
If I'm an imagebearer
Is my image tied to theirs?

If you can sweat blood in the garden
Stare down death on a cross
If you can forgive your killers
That's an image to be proud of

If you were a man of sorrows
Crown of thorns in your hair
If you conquered through suffering
That's an image I can bear
Am I an imagebearer?
Culture-cringe in my heart
But your words flood my mind
Am I an imagebearer?
Torn by my vision of you
And the framework they've entwined

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from Best Laid Plans, released September 23, 2023

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